Tween Decker

A conically shaped, copper rain gauge shield.

Allows foreign merchandise arriving at one port to be transported in bond to another port, where a superseding entry is filed.

A boat that is comfortable in rough weather.

The distance between similar points on successive waves.

Depositing filler metal on a surfsae by welding, spraying, or braze welding to increase resistance to abrasion, erosion, wear, galling. impact, or cavitation damage.

Lloyds Machinery Certificate

A lit navigational aid such as a lighthouse that can be used at night or in poor visibility.

A device used to switch electrical current at a selectable setpoint temperature.

Abbreviation for "Over, Short or Damaged" Usually discovered at cargo unloading.

Coasting Service in the Philippines and Home Trade limit Service.

A sailboat with two masts. Generally, the shorter mizzen mast is aft of the main mast, but forward of the rudder post, while a similar vessel, the yawl, has the mizzen mast aft of the rudder post. The mizzen mast of a ketch is larger than that of a yawl.

An instrument for the measurement of the rate of ice accretion on an unheated body.

The difference between temperature measurements taken at two significant levels above the ground. Temperatures at 10 and 40 meters are commonly used.

The lines that lead from the clew of the jib to the cockpit and are used to control the jib.

The maximum distance, usually horizontally, at which a given object or light source is just visible under particular conditions of transmittance and background luminance.

Class AA Ice Stregthening.

(1) Order to men at the mast to extend themselves at intervals along a yard. (2) To keep a vessel at a certain place until a specified time has elapsed.

A group of wind turbines interconnected to a common utility system through a system of transformers, distribution lines, and (usually) one substation. Operation, control, and maintenance functions are often centralized through a network of computerized mo ...

A process of removing soil, scale, or corrosion products from a metal surface by subjecting it as an electrode to an electric current in an electrolytic bath.